Owarimonogatari
Novel
終物語 2013/10/21
Character count617,678
Word count246,306
Unique words14,728
Unique words used once6,467
Unique kanji2,331
Unique kanji used once335
Average sentence length27.6
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue33.7%
Volumes3
Duration 44 h

Volume 1: Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we met at the very beginning, who opined that friendships only lowered his intensity as a human. What initiates his pilgrim’s progress of a reckoning is his first encounter, at school, with the mysterious freshman Ogi Oshino, self-described niece of the equally enigmatic aberration expert Mèmè, and the book’s opening chapter is a harrowing standalone novella of a who-dunit involving a locked room of sorts. Our increasingly well-adjusted hero kept on beingdecent at one thing even when he was just hanging on, but this forte, an unlikely aptitude for math, of all things, becomes the focus of a cheating scandal and a web of recollections that forces him to come to terms with, what do you know, his capacity to connect to people. Volume 2: When an old flame who gave up on life and chose to go up in flames—because he wanted to leave you but couldn’t—comes crawling back after four hundred years, you might not appreciate it, especially if you’re in a new relationship. But nothing’s ever simple between people, and that’s even truer between monsters. For the first time in months, our heroic loser Araragi is human, parted by previous events from the ex-legendary vampire bound to his shadow. Before he, the second-ever thrall of the former Kissshot, can resume his partnership with the donut-loving waif that she’s turned into, she must make a choice—about that first-ever. Before the End Tale can end, some loose ends must be tied, and in this volume, the fixer Gaen calls in her favor, requesting an introduction to her niece; the errand of the amulet that Araragi ran with Kanbaru comes into crisp focus; and the time-traveling and -spanning Dandy and Demon Tales see their devastating resolution. Volume 3: No good deed goes unpunished, they say, an

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Volume 1
Character count220,188
Word count87,836
Unique words8,307
Unique words used once3,810
Unique kanji1,772
Unique kanji used once262
Average sentence length27.1
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue34.3%
Duration 16 h
Volume 2
Character count182,466
Word count74,191
Unique words8,150
Unique words used once3,924
Unique kanji1,896
Unique kanji used once372
Average sentence length27.0
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue31.8%
Duration 13 h
Volume 3
Character count215,024
Word count84,279
Unique words8,753
Unique words used once4,217
Unique kanji1,864
Unique kanji used once327
Average sentence length28.6
Difficulty beta Hard
Dialogue35.1%
Duration 15 h